Buenos Dias!!
This has been an awesome week here in los Baños
del Inca. This week we visited a super awesome family and reference from the
Reategui family. The Reategui family is super awesome. The husband, Pedro
Reategui, works for a humanitarian organization from the U.S. called Aguila
Condor. His wife, Melisa is a nurse who helps businesses with health standards.
The two of them together run a community center/food bank for children here in
Baños called El Bichito. They are just awesome and this week with Melissa and
Pedro we visited a 12 year old girl named Milagros, who attends el Bichito, and
her mother Elaina. They have had their fair share of economic challenges in
life and Elaina is practically a single mom raising her 4 children here in
Baños. Well we went to visit this family and it went amazingly. Elaina used to
be super religious but over the past 20 years, because of various challenges,
has really distanced herself from God and any type of church. Elaina and
Milagros were super excited to recieve us and Elaina was saying how it is not a
coincidence that the restored gospel of Jesus Christ has come into her life at
this time. It is really quite amazing to see their disposition to come unto
Christ. Her daughter Milagros (12) and Percy (7) are just the sweetest thing.
After our second visit with the family, after Percy explained an encyclopedia's
worth of knowledge about prophets, Milagros offered the sweetest prayer asking
for God's help to find his true church so that they can follow Christ as a
family. Her prayer I think brought tears to the eyes of just about everyone
that was present. The family is awesome and they not only attended church this
week and witnessed a beautiful primary program, a presentation put on by
children, but they also have accepted a baptismal date for the 6th of
January. No better way to start a new fresh year than to get baptised.
Sometimes God puts challenges in or life to prepare us for future blessings and
that is very well what has happened with this family. Every challenge is an
oportunity to learn and grow as children of God, to be more like Jesus Christ.
Super awesome right?!?
Well this has just been an awesome week here in
Los Baños del Inca (so called not because they are the bathrooms of the incas
but rather there are thermal hotsprings here that the Inca/emperor used to
bath). Last monday as a district we went to visit some small waterfalls in my
area at llacanora. Despite the mosquitos eating my legs alive it was super rad.
Here the rainy season is in full swing and we enjoy nice sunny mornings and
rain or occasional downpours in the afternoon. It is pretty awesome here.
Well I love you guys lots, until next week.
Love,
Elder Vassau
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